Here’s a question I began to ponder a few years back: Why is it that in advertising we don’t have a unified method for coming up with and developing ideas?
In our great ad schools, we don’t teach a commonly understood process for how to think. A process is taught in almost every other creative field – architecture, screenwriting, graphic design, physics, even stand-up comedy.
It was perplexing. Ideas are the very currency of advertising. We have to come up with lots and lots of them and we usually have to do it in a short amount of time. So wouldn’t learning a smart, efficient method to creative problem-solve be really valuable?
So, I set out to develop a method for coming up with ideas that would help creatives become smart, confident idea-makers. I studied how brilliant thinkers in our business make ideas, and how and what creative thinkers are taught in other fields. Over the course of my research a process began to reveal itself, along with core creative principles that I’ve adapted and applied to what we do every day.
Since then, I’ve been teaching it to hundreds of creatives. You can read what some of them have to say here.
While there is no formula for making ideas, Make Brilliant Ideas is a method developed to give creatives a powerful foundation for jump-starting thinking, coming up with an expansive range of ideas super efficiently, and developing the best of them into brilliant campaigns.
The goal is to prepare creatives to perform at a high level the moment they enter an agency and to help junior to mid-level creatives become more powerful thinkers and more productive contributors.
I continue to develop the method as I get new ideas from the creative community and test what resonates most with writers and art directors in my course at New York’s School of Visual Arts where I’ve been teaching for twenty years.
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